Plea deal over brawl near AT&T Park

Updated 7:44 am, Saturday, July 26, 2014

(07-25) 19:05 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- Two Sacramento men accused of participating in a drunken brawl that resulted in a woman getting knocked unconscious outside San Francisco's AT&T Park reached a plea agreement in superior court Friday, prosecutors said.

Anthony Rucker, 42, pleaded guilty to one count of felony assault and Francisco Lopez, 32, pleaded no contest to misdemeanor assault for the July 10 fight after the A's victory over the Giants in the last game of the four-game Bay Bridge Series.

As part of the plea agreement, Rucker will be sentenced to one year in county jail at his sentencing hearing in September, prosecutors said. Lopez was sentenced Friday to three years probation for the misdemeanor plea, and was released from custody. They were ordered to stay away from the victims and to pay restitution.

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Authorities said the fight began about 5:50 p.m. when one of the victims, a 28-year-old San Jose man, thought Rucker's daughter was filming his companion, a 27-year-old Oakland woman, as she vomited on the sidewalk from having drunk too much alcohol.

Lopez got involved, and when the woman tried to intervene, she was hit by Rucker and knocked unconscious, according to investigators.

She was transported to San Francisco General Hospital and released the following morning. The man who was with her was treated at the scene for chipped teeth.

Lopez's nose was fractured in the melee, to such an extent that it affected his breathing while he was in custody, his attorney Lorne Dubin told The Chronicle earlier this month.

Rucker and Lopez were both on probation in Sacramento County, Rucker for a conviction of possessing marijuana for sale and Lopez for a conviction of negligently discharging a firearm. Rucker remains in custody on $200,000 bail.

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